How to pronounce“cuernos”in English

Los Cuernos is cool, but these mountains show us just one way the rock cycle can play out.

These are Los Cuernos del Painé.

At Los Cuernos, when the magma intruded into the mountain, it oozed between layers of sedimentary rock.

But at Los Cuernos, the metamorphic rocks are non-foliated.

The sedimentary rocks at Los Cuernos are clastic— they formed from bits of other rocks that broke off, drifted away, and got compacted deep underground over time.

The igneous rock at Los Cuernos is intrusive.

Our last stop on the tour of Los Cuernos is metamorphic rock, which forms when intense temperature, pressure, hot fluids, or a combo of these causes one kind of rock to transform into a different kind of rock.

All three of these rock types were involved in the formation of Los Cuernos.

Remember that thick, light stripe on Los Cuernos?